Student/Scholar Activism Resources

Suggested reference materials:

Culture wars: an encyclopedia of issues, viewpoints, and voices. [1] 2 vols. (IC)
Encyclopedia of activism and social justice [2]. 3 vols. (SSRC)
Encyclopedia of American activism, 1960 to the present. [3] (IC)
Encyclopedia of the American left [4]. (IC)
Encyclopedia of politics: the left and the right [5]. (IC)
The International encyclopedia of revolution and protest: 1500 to the present. [6] 8 vols. (IC)
Student political activism: an international reference handbook [6]. (IC)
Youth activism: an international encyclopedia [7]. 2 vols. (IC)

Suggested subject words:- limit by adding country or state

College students or College teachers and political activity
Education, Higher Political aspects United States [8]
New Left United States [9]
Persuasion rhetoric [10] (narrow search by using “political aspects”)
Political participation [11]
Political activists [12]
Radicalism
Social change United States history 20th century [13]
Student movements history United States [14]
Students + university (name) + history
United States politics and government 1945-1989 [15]

Series:
People, passions, and power
[16]

Some books/microfilm to check out:

FBI file on the Students for a Democratic Society and the Weatherman Underground Organization [microform] [17]. 8 reels. Guide in SSRC, microfilm in Media/Microtext
Harlem vs. Columbia University: black student power in the late 1960s. [18] (Education Library)
Stanford in turmoil: campus unrest, 1966-1972 [19], by former President Richard Lyman, in IC and stacks
Students for a Democratic Society: a graphic history [20]. (Education Library)
Profiles in service: Stanford undergraduates write about students engaged in public service [21]. (University Archives)

Tip: Check SEARCHWORKS [22] for books with the call number of L (Education); usually in the Education Library [23]; some materials in IC, HASRC, SSRC; can also be in SAL 1/2 (off site but not off campus) or SAL3 (off campus)

Films:

Issues & ideas. Reflections on student activism, 1960s to 1990s: a talk by David Harris [24]. 2001. (ZVC = video cassette, view in MEDIA-MTXT)
The true source of knowledge these days [25]. (Stanford, the true source of knowledge) Student life in mid-1960s, including UC Berkeley. Made in 1966. ZDVD 19390

Suggested journals/ejournals:
FIND FULL TEXT in Searchworks record for online access:

Chronicle of higher education [26]
Mobilization: the international quarterly review of research in social movements, protest, and contentious politics [27]
Radical history review [28]
Social movements studies [29]
Z magazine (Boston, Mass.) [30] - related website: Z magazine: the spirit of resistance lives! [31]

Suggested databases:

Academic Search Premier [32]
The Nation Digital Archive [33], 1865 to current.
Online Archive of California [34] - includes materials from our Special Collections and University Archives, the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, and UC Berkeley
Oral History Online [35]- check under Historical Events
Research Library [36] - from ProQuest, add more databases by clicking on upper left-hand corner, including PAIS (political science), Philosopher's Index, PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Special Stanford resources:

American History collection: Ben Stone, Subject Specialist; See his American history pages [37] and his Blog
Special Collections and University Archives: Good descriptions in database Online Archive of California [34], includes things like records of Stanford Against Conscription (SAC) – Students against the Draft, etc.
Hoover Institution Library and Archives. [38] Library has Underground newspaper collection. 476 reels plus supplements, covers 1963-1989. Includes Berkeley Barb, 1965-1980. Also papers of the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), as well as their journal New left notes; Young Spartacus (Socialist student group in N.Y., 1973-1986)

Websites:

Free Speech Movement Digital Archives [39] from The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Student activism in the 1930s [40]
Student protests in 1960s Chapel Hill [41] (University of North California)

Links:
[1] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8447098
[2] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/6833246
[3] http://searchworks/view/4032081
[4] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4003154
[5] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/5958569
[6] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/7930827
[7] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/6728944
[8] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/?q="Education, Higher" "Political aspects" "United States."&qt=search_subject
[9] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/?q="New Left" "United States"&qt=search_subject&per_page=20
[10] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/?q="Persuasion rhetoric" "political aspects"&qt=search_subject&per_page=20
[11] http://searchworks/?q=political participation&search_field=subject_terms
[12] http://searchworks/?q=political activists&search_field=subject_terms
[13] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/?q="Social change" "United States" "History" "20th century."&qt=search_subject
[14] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/?q="Student movements" "United States" "History."&qt=search_subject
[15] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/?q="United States" "Politics and government" "1945-1989."&qt=search_subject
[16] http://searchworks/?q="People, passions, and power."&search_field=search_series
[17] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2319202
[18] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8220416
[19] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/7874001
[20] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/7597694
[21] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/6744375
[22] http://searchworks.stanford.edu
[23] http://www.stanford.edu/group/cubberley/
[24] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4521375
[25] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/7839333
[26] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/486296
[27] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4727711
[28] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/407322
[29] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/5052744
[30] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/515982
[31] http://www.zcommunications.org/zmag
[32] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/5749286
[33] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/5724779
[34] http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
[35] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/5640675
[36] http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8785205
[37] http://library.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/abhist/ushist/index.html
[38] http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives
[39] http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/
[40] http://newdeal.feri.org/students/index.htm
[41] http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/exhibits/protests/

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